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Global temperatures experienced a negative anomaly between 1950 and 1980 due to aerosol masking
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Global temperatures experienced a pronounced slowdown or negative anomaly between 1950 and 1980, which multiple lines of research attribute to aerosol masking and global dimming offsetting greenhouse gas warming.

Evidence for · 4
Contribution of solar radiation to decadal temperature variability over land.
2013 · cited by 20
Paper [1] notes a substantial decrease in surface solar radiation from the 1940s to the 1970s that caused significant cooling, accounting in part for near-constant global temperatures during that period.
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The retrieved papers consistently support the claim that anthropogenic aerosol forcing and related reductions in surface solar radiation (global dimming) contributed to a negative temperature anomaly or a leveling off of global and regional temperatures from the 1940s/1950s through the 1970s.

More for · 3
Contributions of Anthropogenic Aerosol Forcing and Multidecadal Internal Variability to Mid‐20th Century Arctic Cooling—CMIP6/DAMIP Multimodel Analysis
2022 · cited by 18
Paper [2] uses CMIP6 multimodel analyses to demonstrate that anthropogenic aerosol forcings contributed significantly to mid-20th-century surface cooling.
Global warming 2007. An update to global warming: the balance of evidence and its policy implications.
2007 · cited by 12
Paper [4] discusses how global dimming driven by aerosol scattering of sunlight helps explain the suppressed warming observed during the mid-20th century.
The missing climate forcing
1997 · cited by 3
Paper [7] argues that aerosol effects produced a large negative forcing that substantially offset greenhouse warming during the mid-to-late 20th century.
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first checked02 Aug 2026
judged → SUPPORTED · 8302 Aug 2026
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